Author:
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936, author.
ImprintLondon : Forgotten Books, [2018]
Imprint2018
Descriptionx, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Reprint. Originally published: London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923.
Note:The romance of rhyme -- Hamlet and the psycho-analyst -- The meaning of mock turkey -- Shakespeare and the legal lady -- On being an old bean -- The fear of the film -- Wings and the housemaid -- The slavery of free press -- Prohibition and the press -- The mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett -- A defence of dramatic unities -- The boredom of butterflies -- The terror of a toy -- False theory and the theatre -- The secret society of mankind -- The sentimentalism of divorce -- Street cars and stretching the law -- Why reforms go wrong -- The innocence of the criminal -- The prudery of the feminists -- How mad laws are made -- The pagoda of progress -- The myth of the "Mayflower" -- Much too modern history -- The evolution of slaves -- Is Darwin dead? -- Turning inside out -- Strikes and the spirit of wonder -- A note on old nonsense -- Milton and merry England.
